Vegetation evolution on the central chinese loess plateau since late quaternary evidenced by elemental carbon isotopic composition

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2082-2089

  Zhou, Bin ^a,b,c   Shen, Chengde ^b   Zheng, Hongbo ^a   Zhao, Meixun ^c,d   Sun, Yanmin ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^c TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Ocean University of China   (China)

Author keywords

C3 C4 plants; Elemental carbon; Elemental carbon isotopic composition ( 13Cec); Loess plateau; Vegetation proxy

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649989675     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-009-0084-8     Document Type: Article

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